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Google Buzz was a social networking, microblogging and messaging tool that was developed by Google and integrated into their web-based email program, Gmail. Users could share links, photos, videos, status messages and comments organized in "conversations" and visible in the user's inbox.

On October 14, 2011, Google announced that it would be discontinuing the service and that the existing content would be available in read-only mode. Buzz was discontinued on December 15, 2011.

Buzz enabled users to choose to share publicly with the world or privately to a group of friends each time they posted. Picasa, Flickr, Google Latitude, Google Reader, Google Sidewiki, YouTube, Blogger, FriendFeed, identi.ca and Twitter were integrated. The creation of Buzz was seen by industry analysts as an attempt by Google to compete with social networking websites like Facebook and microblogging services like Twitter. Buzz also included several interface and interaction elements from other Google products ...

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GMAIL USERS: You're welcome to join the discussion over on Mashable’s Google Buzz account. Google Buzz only launched four days ago but it's already taking off in a big way. Google already made some changes to how Buzz works on Thursday but today the ...

GMAIL USERS: We hope you'll join the discussion over on Mashable’s Google Buzz account. Whether you're using it on your phone or your desktop, Google Buzz is quickly becoming an interesting and popular way to share content with your Gmail friends. Ho...

GMAIL USERS: We hope you'll join the discussion over on Mashable’s Google Buzz account. Some think Google Buzz could be the next huge social platform. Others think it’s one big privacy nightmare. With its launch week drawing to an end, we pinged our ...

GMAIL USERS: We hope you'll join the discussion over on Mashable’s Google Buzz account. With more than 9 million posts and comments in two days, Google Buzz has stormed the web like a swarm of locusts. An array of strong features, integration with Gm...

GMAIL USERS: We hope you'll join the discussion over on Mashable’s Google Buzz account. Google might have a made a major misstep in assuming that the people we communicate with the most in Gmail are the same people we want to automatically share the ...

GMAIL USERS: We hope you'll join the discussion over on Mashable’s Google Buzz account. Yesterday we added Google Buzz buttons to Mashable, letting you share our stories to Google's new social network as you can on Twitter and Facebook. Today we adde...

GMAIL USERS: We hope you'll join the discussion over on Mashable’s Google Buzz account. Earlier today, we posted a buzz asking our followers: "What features would you like to see in Google Buzz?" We received just shy of 500 responses over the course ...

GMAIL USERS: You're invited to join the conversation on Mashable's Google Buzz account. Google Buzz just launched on Tuesday, but it looks like it's already made a big splash with Gmail users. Now the Google team is moving quickly to make rapid impro...

GMAIL USERS: You're invited to join the conversation on Mashable's Google Buzz account. Google Buzz is shaping up to be an interesting new way to share content with your Gmail friends, so why not have a button for sharing blog posts to the service? O...

Google this week launched Google Buzz, its biggest venture yet into the social media space. We're excited to have the Mashable community contribute to our articles and knowledge using the new tool, making our site even more collaborative. Today we're...

GMAIL USERS: We hope you'll join the discussion over on Mashable’s Google Buzz account. Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr made an appearance on G4’s Attack of the Show this afternoon to talk Google Buzz – the new service you can access through Gmail that t...

GMAIL USERS: You can now follow Mashable’s official Google Buzz profile here: http://www.google.com/profiles/mashable Wow, things really are rolling out fast. After announcing it breakthrough new Gmail feature, Google Buzz, Google is making sure that...

You can also join the discussion on our official Google Buzz account. - Google Buzz has arrived. We're all still chatting about and analyzing Google's biggest move into social media yet -- it's a top trending topic on Twitter and the big subject in t...

GMAIL USERS: You can now follow Mashable's official Google Buzz profile here: http://www.google.com/profiles/mashable We learned earlier this morning that Google Buzz adds a shared social experience -- very similar to FriendFeed and Facebook -- to yo...

GMAIL USERS: You can now follow Mashable's official Google Buzz profile here: http://www.google.com/profiles/mashable So far, Google has failed to launch a successful social web product to U.S. Internet users. Orkut has taken off in including Brazil ...

GMAIL USERS: You can now follow Mashable's official Google Buzz profile here: http://www.google.com/profiles/mashable Earlier this afternoon, Google announced Google Buzz, a semantic approach to social status updates that live inside Gmail. The demon...

GMAIL USERS: You can now follow Mashable's official Google Buzz profile here: http://www.google.com/profiles/mashable It's no shocker that the web is buzzing about Google Buzz (terrible pun intended), Google's most aggressive push into social media y...

GMAIL USERS: You can now follow Mashable's official Google Buzz profile here: http://www.google.com/profiles/mashable Google has just unveiled its latest attempt to become more relevant in the social media space: Google Buzz. The product is integrate...

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